Article: At last I can walk tall after 15 years of agony staring at the floor!; Surgeons screw two 16-inch rods and 14 bolts into Alan's back.(Features)

Father-Of-Three Alan Greaves spent 15 agonising years bent forward staring at the floor and looking horrifyingly like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

A severe spinal disease reduced the 6ft 5in former policeman to a stooping wreck, unable even to change a light bulb. And it caused him years of unending pain, indigestion and disfigurement.

Now, after an incredibly complex and risky operation, Alan is walking tall and proud of it. Surgeons used two titanium rods and 14 bolts to straighten his spine in 12 hours of surgery.

"It's marvellous. It's given me ...

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